Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Mansukh Mandavya to preside via video conferencing  

Kochi, March 03, 2023

Kerala Chief Minister  Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the newly built Surgical Super Specialty Block of Kozhikode Government Medical College in a function to be held here on March 4, 2023  at 5.30 pm. Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandavya will preside over the function via video conferencing .  Kerala Health Minister Veena George, Ministers P.A. Mohammad Riyas , A.K. Sashindran and Ahmed Devarkovil will participate in the function.  

A new surgical super specialty block is set up under PHASE-III of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana at Government Medical College, Kozhikode which is the second Medical College in the State of Kerala.  Started in 1957, this hospital caters to tertiary health care in seven neighbouring districts. The Super specialty building having an area of 2.57 lakhs square feet is set up within 273 acres of college campus with a project cost of Rs. 195.93 crores, which includes Rs. 120 crores as Central Government share and Rs. 75.93 crores as State Government share.

The seven storey hospital has 500 beds which includes 190 ICU beds along with nineteen Modular operation theatres and equipment like C-Arm, MRI, CT scan, CSSD and multi organ transplant facilities. This will add facilities for five surgical Super specialty Departments, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology.

Departments such as Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Surgical Gastroenterology,  Urology & Renal Transplantation Surgery,  Plastic Surgery, Emergency Medicine,  Anaesthesiology and Accident and Emergency will function in the new building

 

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